W.C. Fields, Wiley Post, Will Rogers shortly before Post and Rogers fatal plane crash in 1935. Our grandfather and Will Rogers first met as young men in vaudeville in South Africa. Later they performed on Broadway together, and then migrated to Hollywood in the movies. Our grandfather was devastated by his friend's death. (We grew up with this photo in our home.)

Our Family.

Our father, W.C. Fields, Jr., shown on the left, note the same piercing intelligence in the eyes, the elegance of carriage, the gentle presence of being, father and son—W.C. Fields and W.C. Fields, Jr., our father and grandfather.

W.C. Dukenfield at five years old.W.C. about 15 years old, circa 1895.

W.C. Fields' father, James Dukenfield an immigrant from England in Civil War uniform.Kate Felton Dukenfield, W.C. Fields' mother, with her grandson, our father W.C. Fields, Jr., October 1907.

James Dukenfield, W.C. Fields' father, and our father, W.C. Fields, Jr. on the shoulders of his grandfather in Atlantic City.Our grandfather, W.C. Fields with his young son, our father on the beach in Atlantic City.

Our grandfather, W.C. Fields with his young son on the beach.Formal portrait of Father and Son, W.C. Fields with our father, W.C. Fields, Jr., 1907. This photo was hanging in our grandmother's, Harriet (Hattie) Hughes Fields' bedroom.

W.C. Fields with his first grandchild, our brother W.C. Fields, III, and our mother, W.C. Fields' daughter-in-law, Anne Ruth Stevens Fields. Our father, W.C. Fields, Jr., was on duty in the Navy at the time in WWII.

The great grandchildren Austin Fields, Chelsea Fields and Alexander Fields at the Hollywood Boulevard Star of W.C. Fields in front of the Roosevelt Hotel, 2008.